The second striking point was the way the rests and pauses were manipulated and utilised to characterise the entire performance.

The measure of five syllables is almost always inconvenient in utterance and should be broken up, by a rest, into two portions.

The verse is clearly to be read aloud as three beats followed by a rest, followed by three more beats, followed by a rest  and therefore as two tetrameters in a row, each of which has its fourth beat silent.

3 [in combination] An object that is used to support something:a shoulder rest

Origen

In the sense ‘to stop working or moving’, rest is an Old English word from a root meaning ‘league’ or ‘mile’—the reference was to a distance after which a person rested. The rest that means ‘the remaining part’ comes from Latin restare ‘to remain’, also the source of to arrest someone (Late Middle English), which you do by stopping them, and restive (late 16th century). Like reprieve, restive is a word whose meaning has been reversed. Its original meaning was ‘inclined to stay still, inert’. It was then applied particularly to a horse which remained stubbornly still or shifted from side to side instead of moving on. From this came the current meaning of ‘restless, fidgety’.

Origen

In the sense ‘to stop working or moving’, rest is an Old English word from a root meaning ‘league’ or ‘mile’—the reference was to a distance after which a person rested. The rest that means ‘the remaining part’ comes from Latin restare ‘to remain’, also the source of to arrest someone (Late Middle English), which you do by stopping them, and restive (late 16th century). Like reprieve, restive is a word whose meaning has been reversed. Its original meaning was ‘inclined to stay still, inert’. It was then applied particularly to a horse which remained stubbornly still or shifted from side to side instead of moving on. From this came the current meaning of ‘restless, fidgety’.

and (all) the rest (of it)

I love crosswords - I love the cryptic clues and the obscure quotes from Shakespeare and all the rest.

I bought her book, stocked up on butter beans, fennel and the rest of it, and fell at the first hurdle - when I discovered that her sweet-potato wedges were even more delicious with big dollops of full-fat mayonnaise.

If this makes it worse what is going to happen in terms of our house insurance and the rest of it?